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Re: fill length of visual line mode
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Johan Bockgård |
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Re: fill length of visual line mode |
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Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:19:39 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Ivan Kanis <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:48:12 +0200
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>> I just enabled visual line mode today. I have started using it to
>> display gnus article. I noticed that the fill happens at the width of
>> the Emacs window. I set fill-column to 70 and I was expecting it to wrap
>> there.
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> That's not how word-wrap was designed and implemented. It works more
> like Web browsers, i.e. it wraps at the window edge.
The original word wrap patch by Kim did support wrapping at a specified
column, but this feature was removed when the code was integrated into
Emacs.